Natural Food Security: Quinua, Hauzontli, Chia
The United Nations 26 November began debate on a draft resolution declaring 2013 as the International Year of Quinua. The resolution notes that the peoples of the Andean region have…
Read moreFree Education Free Minds
A few years back, CWIS fellow and Yakama Nation elder Russell Jim told of his youth and his rescue by his aunt from government run Indian boarding schools in the…
Read moreAtmosphere of Hostility
The recent loss of the Schaghticoke Nation’s community pavilion to arson is tragic enough, but the fact that tribal leaders believe it is the consequence of actions by the State…
Read moreGarden of Truth
Garden of Truth: The Prostitution and Trafficking of Native Women in Minnesota, published by Minnesota Indian Women's Sexual Assault Coalition in collaboration with Prostitution Research and Education, has been released….
Read moreIndigenous Nations of the World
In his article in Indian Country Today, Duane Champagne discusses the continuity and persistence of indigenous cultures and commitments to their own political forms. Recounting the evolution of nation states…
Read moreSeparate and Unequal
Real News reports from the West Bank, where, on Tuesday, Palestinian freedom riders boarded segregated settler buses. Reminiscent of the freedom rides in Mississippi Freedom Summer, the civil rights activists…
Read moreFinal Solution
If you look at the sum of UN programs rather than its pieces, a different picture emerges. As storytellers, it is our task to paint that picture through narratives that…
Read moreDurban’s Climate Treaty by 2012?
The Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change convenes its 17th session in Durban, the largest city in KwaZulu-Natal in the country of South Africa….
Read moreNew Book by Rudolph Ryser
To be published April 2012 INDIGENOUS NATIONS AND MODERN STATES 320 pages Published by Routledge In this volume Rudolph C. Ryser describes how indigenous peoples transformed themselves from anthropological curiosities…
Read moreDisplacing Sustainable Ways
The governments of Germany and Russia have teamed up to bring the Nenet people of the Yamal Peninsula into the modern age through energy development on their indigenous territory. The…
Read moreChief George Manuel Memorial Indigenous Library
The library is dedicated to the memory of Secwepemc Chief George Manuel (1921-1989), to the nations of the Fourth World and to the elders and generations to come.
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